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Around back, the cobra provides one installed 120mm fan, the seven expansion slots, two cutouts for water cooling and is designed for a bottom mounted PSU. The back of each side panel also has pop out handles for easy side panel removal… a nice touch.
Internally, the first thing you notice is the bright lime green motherboard tray. The motherboard tray has a slew of cutouts for proper wire management and a HUGE cutout for easy heatsink removal and upgrade. It comes with standoffs in place for a standard ATX motherboard. The cutouts are adequate for neat wiring, and the motherboard has multiple tie down points to keep things in place. The space between the tray and the side panel is wide enough for you to tuck your power supply cable back there.
The tool free design that RAIDMAX uses for each of the 5.25″ drive bays is one of the simplest I have seen. Pressing on the end releases the standoff that holds your drive in place. There are screw holes available should you feel the urge to batten down those hatches.
Directly below the 5.25″ bays is a clever, yet simple hard drive cage. This area ships with the cage wall (removable) configured to home four 2.5″ hard drives. With a twist of a screw, you can either remove the cage wall (ideal for super long video cards) or configure the area to hold four 3.5″ hard drives. The area just below is static and holds three 3.5″ drives. The front fan is mounted right in the middle so each of the areas can benefit from some fresh air.
Each of the 3.25″ drive bays make use of drive rails for easy install / removal. RAIDMax counted properly and provided enough for seven drives.
